LEADER 04751nam 2201033 450 001 9910787267203321 005 20210421205410.0 010 $a0-520-37922-5 010 $a0-520-95949-3 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520959491 035 $a(CKB)3710000000306396 035 $a(EBL)1711055 035 $a(OCoLC)897069576 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001381234 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12604282 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001381234 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11391815 035 $a(PQKB)10796184 035 $a(DE-B1597)521136 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520959491 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1711055 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10993807 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL670703 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1711055 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000306396 100 $a20141219h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe final pagan generation /$fEdward J. Watts 210 1$aOakland, California :$cUniversity of California Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (347 p.) 225 1 $aTransformation of the Classical Heritage ;$vLIII 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-28370-8 311 0 $a1-322-39421-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Growing Up in the Cities of the Gods --$t2. Education in an Age of Imagination --$t3. The System --$t4. Moving Up in an Age of Uncertainty --$t5. The Apogee --$t6. The New Pannonian Order --$t7. Christian Youth Culture in the 360s and 370s --$t8. Bishops, Bureaucrats, and Aristocrats under Gratian, Valentinian II, and Theodosius --$t9. Old Age in a Young Man's Empire --$t10. A Generation's Legacy --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe Final Pagan Generation recounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the last Romans born before the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. Edward J. Watts traces their experiences of living through the fourth century's dramatic religious and political changes, when heated confrontations saw the Christian establishment legislate against pagan practices as mobs attacked pagan holy sites and temples. The emperors who issued these laws, the imperial officials charged with implementing them, and the Christian perpetrators of religious violence were almost exclusively young men whose attitudes and actions contrasted markedly with those of the earlier generation, who shared neither their juniors' interest in creating sharply defined religious identities nor their propensity for violent conflict. Watts examines why the "final pagan generation"-born to the old ways and the old world in which it seemed to everyone that religious practices would continue as they had for the past two thousand years-proved both unable to anticipate the changes that imperially sponsored Christianity produced and unwilling to resist them. A compelling and provocative read, suitable for the general reader as well as students and scholars of the ancient world. 410 0$aTransformation of the classical heritage ;$vLIII. 606 $aPaganism$zRome 606 $aChristianity and other religions$zRome 607 $aRome$xReligion 610 $aancient history. 610 $aancient rome. 610 $aancient world. 610 $achristian establishment. 610 $achristianity. 610 $aconversion. 610 $aemperor constantine. 610 $aemperors. 610 $afinal pagan generation. 610 $afourth century history. 610 $ahistorical. 610 $ahistory of christianity. 610 $ahistory. 610 $aimperial officers. 610 $alater roman empire. 610 $amediterranean history. 610 $amobs. 610 $apagan practices. 610 $apagan sites. 610 $apagan temples. 610 $apolitical changes. 610 $apolitics. 610 $areligion. 610 $areligious changes. 610 $areligious identities. 610 $areligious practices. 610 $areligious studies. 610 $areligious violence. 610 $aroman empire. 610 $aroman history. 610 $arome. 610 $aviolent conflict. 615 0$aPaganism 615 0$aChristianity and other religions 676 $a292.07 700 $aWatts$b Edward Jay$f1975-$0474080 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787267203321 996 $aThe final pagan generation$93779106 997 $aUNINA